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“simon mcdonnell”

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  • A Party with Socialists in It

    A History of the Labour Left

    by Simon Hannah ...
    *A Guardian Book of the Day*The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benn’s famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.'For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation and struggle. However, has it ever truly been on the side of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transport Beyond Oil

    Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future

    by Neil Sipe, Todd Litman, Deborah Gordon, Deron Lovaas, Jago Dodson, Robert Noland, Christopher Hanson, Joanne R. Potter, Bradley W. Lane, Projjal K. Dutta, Petra E. Todorovich Messick, Edward Burgess, Simon McDonnell, Jie (Jane) Lin, Kevin Mills, Alan Sanford Drake, Peter Newman, Jeffrey Kenworthy, Anthony Charles Hull, David G. Burwell ...
    Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year goes to transportation. That means that the national oil addiction and all its consequences, from climate change to disastrous spills to dependence on foreign markets, can be greatly reduced by changing the way we move. In Transport Beyond Oil, leading experts in transportation, planning, development, and policy show how to achieve this fundamental ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson

    Edited by Andrew S. Crines, Kevin Hickson ...
    This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ... Read more

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  • Yes to Europe!

    The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain

    by Robert Saunders ...
    On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on Britain's place in the world. The campaign to stay in stretched from the Conservative Party - under its new leader, Margaret Thatcher - to the Labour ... Read more

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  • The Myth Of Decline

    The Rise of Britain Since 1945

    by George L Bernstein ...
    This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence. The political narrative is about the struggle to maintain a power that was illusory and, from 1960 on, to reverse an economic decline that was nearly as illusory. The British economy had its problems, which are ... Read more

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  • The Prime Ministers Who Never Were

    A Collection of Political Counterfactuals

    by Francis Beckett ...
    Each of these chapters in this book of political counterfactuals describes a premiership that never happened, but might easily have done had the chips fallen slightly differently. The contributors, each of them experts in political history, have asked themselves questions like: what shape would the welfare state and the cold war have taken if the Prime Minister had been Herbert Morrison instead of ... Read more

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  • The Death of Consensus

    100 Years of British Political Nightmares

    by Phil Tinline ...
    Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of broken consensus and political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? Historians usually focus on the dawn of a new consensus--postwar Keynesianism, or Thatcherite neoliberalism. Yet journalist Phil Tinline argues that we should be more interested in the periods of turmoil and ... Read more

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  • State and Society

    A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870

    by Professor Martin Pugh ...
    As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society is one of the most respected and widely-read introductions to modern British history. Martin Pugh explores as his central theme the relationship between the British state and its citizens with characteristic skill and insight.In this new fifth edition, Pugh brings his final ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Slump

    Britain in the Great Depression

    by John Stevenson, Chris Cook ...
    'One of the most relentlessly brilliant studies of twentieth-century Britain ... these young historians have found a marvellous theme and stuck to it. Theirs is the glory!' Professor Arthur Marwick, HistoryThe 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole queues and hunger marches, mass unemployment, the means test, and the rise of fascism - also saw the development of new industries, the growth of ... Read more

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  • The People's Peace

    Britain Since 1945

    by Kenneth O. Morgan ...
    The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its themes include the troubles of the British economy; public criticism of the legitimacy of the state and its instruments of authority ... Read more

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  • The Benn Heresy

    Foreword by Owen Jones

    by Alan Freeman ...
    This new edition of the classic biography of Tony Benn captures the essence of Benn's formidable impact on the British Labour Party and British politics. Written at the apogee of his career, immediately after the Labour Party's 1981 Deputy Leadership campaign under Harold Wilson, it charts the evolution of Benn's ideas and the underlying reasons both for their resonance with the British public, ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century

    by Mark Clapson ...
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    The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Britain is a jargon-free guide to the social, economic and political history of Britain since 1900. Opening with a general introduction and overview of twentieth century Britain, the book contains a wealth of chronologies, facts and figures, introductions to major themes, the historiography of twentieth century Britain, a guide to sources and resources, ... Read more

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